Members of the Wasatch Immigration Project’s legal team, including new staff attorneys Jessica Hamilton and Kaite Hogan, gather at the nonprofit’s Park City office. The organization recently expanded its staff to meet rising community demand for immigration legal services. Photo: Wasatch Immigration Project

PARK CITY, Utah — The Wasatch Immigration Project (WIP), a Park City-based nonprofit law firm providing pro bono and low bono legal services to immigrants, has expanded its legal team with the hire of two new staff attorneys.

Jessica Hamilton and Kaite Hogan, both recent graduates of the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, joined WIP this month after passing the Utah Bar exam.

Founded in 2023, WIP opened its Park City office in June 2024 and represented 266 clients in its first full year, filing more than 350 applications and legal forms. The group ended 2024 with more than 150 people on its waitlist, and demand increased further in early 2025 as immigration policies shifted.

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“In order to reach more people, more quickly, we have been working hard to raise the funds needed to grow our legal team,” said Executive Director Maggie AbuHaidar, one of WIP’s volunteer attorneys.

With community donations and grants from groups including the Utah Bar Foundation, Park City Community Foundation, Women’s Giving Fund, Marriott Daughters Foundation, and Promontory Foundation, WIP has been able to transition from a largely volunteer-run effort to a staffed law firm.

Hamilton, who previously worked for the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights in Washington, D.C., directed the Pro Bono Initiative Immigration Clinic while in law school. She said joining WIP was a natural next step.

“As someone deeply committed to immigrant justice, I’m honored to join the WIP team and stand with families in the Wasatch Back as they navigate the complex immigration system,” Hamilton said. “I look forward to helping WIP expand its capacity so that even more families can access the legal support and representation they deserve.”

Hogan, a Washington state native and Utah State University graduate, completed internships with Gardner & Taylor, Stowell Crayk, Catholic Community Services, and No Mas before graduating law school. She said immigration law reflects her personal commitment to equity.

“It is to the detriment of our society to ignore the plight of a minority for the easy routine of the majority,” Hogan said. Working with WIP was the “right fit,” she added, because “the organization has chosen to support all members of our community and make the continual effort to uphold basic human rights.”

WIP also hired its first full-time paralegal, Yoselyn Monsalve, in May and added part-time paralegal Santiago Carvajal in August. Both earned law degrees in their countries of origin but are not licensed to practice in the United States.

AbuHaidar credited community backing for making the growth possible. “Frankly, it is hard to imagine how we were functioning before expanding our team,” she said. “And we could not have done any of this without the overwhelming support of the Park City community.”